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Better Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
- It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest.
- A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.
- It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
- Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.
- You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because…
- Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well,…
- Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.
- Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in.…
- We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden…
- It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into…
- Well, we'll know better next time.
- The more doors there are for you to open, the better the play.
- When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I was completely nuts about…
- It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
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- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator… — Aristotle
- Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for… — Marcus Aurelius